Opinion: Mideast at the Brink of War

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... I ... Israeli jets in a convoy of trucks on the cereal Levanon border Wednesday ... and yesterday Syria claims the right to self-defense the United Nations so are we on the brink ... of another mid East war global view calmness Bret Stephens is here ... to give us his views that ... brought the strokes must've been carrying something very important for Israel to call a hit ... do we know what was on and ... yet they weren't ... um crates of Florida orange juice ... presumably um ... well alot of were up there been a huge weapons transfers over the last six six and a half years between Syria ... and Lebanon to the Hezbollah in Levanon ... Israel's made it clear that it does is he tolerates many of those transfers so long as they are in the category ... of arms which they believe will be game changers ... for example chemical weapons Syria has a stockpile of about a thousand tons worth of chemical weapons ... or anti aircraft missiles that can shoot Down ... fighter jets ... spike Lee you deserve you to like spy planes even civilian ... jetliners ... now ... the best information we seem to have is that what these release hit ... on Wednesday early Wednesday morning ... were Russian made as a seventeen surface to air Sam ... missiles which can get planes up to an altitude of eighty thousand feet and he's really scared ... that if Hizbollah had possession of weapons ... is real would not have control over the skies of Levanon and even civil war in Hillary Clinton said yesterday that the Russians are not passive bystanders in their support for a side ... on the losses on Israeli diplomat going to mosque now ... um what what that conversation look like below was an Israeli diplomat was the national security advisor of ... Israel that must've been a very tough conversation ... right now the Russians are conducting their largest ever naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean report the twenty three Russian ... ships the Russians have been ... quite open in supporting push our Assad even though some other diplomats think ... that he's ... he's on the on on on on his way out ... letting the Israelis would have to warn the Russians ... to their military equipment isn't going to survive so long as they keep selling it ... to this irresponsible and collapsing regime we have to talk about Iran ... in Iran is backing also the Assad regime ... I do you see a proxy war potentially on the cards here believe there is a proxy war game is going on it's been known for its been going on for thirty years it's been going on since I mean Hizbollah ... is an institution ... that is armed ... trained and directed from Iran when I was in Hezbollah's headquarters in Beirut ... pictures of a wall big portrait of the Ayatollah Harmony and the Ayatollah Khomeini they're not it's not a Lebanese political party is the ... present ... um as a pretense to be so this is very much a proxy war the rainy Revolutionary guards Corps ... has been supporting the Assad regime all out since the beginning of the insurgency Syria after all ... is um is Iran's only major Arab ... client ... in the Middle East peace to breach to calm our was a bridge to Hamas is the bridge to ... his ball goes to the states and so it's remarkable that the Obama administration presumably knowing what the stakes are isn't prepared to lift a finger in this really has great game ... against Tehran's just after asking him to know where these chemical weapons are happily helped Israel yet what we'll well well ... I don't know if you and I know where where where where those are these really certainly do and ... the administration the US of mistresses made it clear that any transfer of weapons ... would be seen as a kind of a red line ... the Israelis are monitoring it be nice to just remember intelligence is never full ... foolproof units sixty thousand people dead ... in Syria in the last two years this is a chaotic situation ... so the ability ... to make sure that we know where those stockpiles are ... that they're being securely held in that they're not going to vanish into a kind of terrorist after ... is is is not a sure thing it's one of the reasons why ... two years of U S disengagement has made the situation more not less I can't help but ask Brett ... by a John Kerry in a chock a goal ... yet what you know four years ago on the East this this dynamic duo wrote an op ed ... for The Wall Street Journal which the point was having the time which was engage with Syria ... these guys were the biggest suckers when it came to push our Assad ... um and and and that is something that needs a factor for consideration amid carries know Secretary Clinton the Secretary of State ... it should certainly factors the judgment about ... the chart cables ... basic ... judgment of ... up for world leaders that he wanted to engage in God ... Bipasha son who became the first thing about them would be surprised by the ways that ... global view calmness Bret Stephens the biggest soccer is